• Sarra Residents Fight Settlements Through Non-Violent Roadblock Removal

    Sarra, Nablus Region 08/20/07 Today at 8:30 in the morning, 16 ISM human rights workers joined over a hundred local Palestinian villagers and activists in an attempt to remove a roadblock. Normally a journey from Sarra to Nablus would take five minutes, but since five years ago a roadblock has been placed, effectively making it an Israeli only road for the military and settlers. This prevents villagers from using this road, extending the journey to at…

  • Video: Israeli Soldiers Beating Palestinian Children at a Checkpoint

    The footage Footage captured by an independent American filmmaker on Wednesday 15 August, at the Ras at-Tira checkpoint in the Qalqiliya District, and shows the three children attempting to cross the checkpoint in a horse cart when they are stopped by two Israeli soldiers. The female soldier is clearly shown beating the boys before spitting on them and sending them back the way they came. Her male colleague is then seen picking up stones from the…

  • Epilogue: Get Out and Stay Out

    By Katie This is the “and Stay Out” part. Friday morning I left Ramallah for Egypt to see Jonas in Sinai and to give him some of his stuff. I road a bus from Jerusalem to Eilat and was going to cross the border from Eilat, Israel into Taba, Egypt. I gave Jonas a ballpark time of when I would be there, because you never can tell what will happen at these border crossings. The first…

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